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Wictor Wilén

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 | Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - SharePoint Server MVP | Author

Visual Studio 2008 not responding when you are checking in files to SourceSafe

Posted at 2008-05-16 07:43 by Wictor Wilén in Visual Studio with 4 comments.

I have repeatedly had Visual Studio 2008 hang or stop responding when I'm checking in files to Visual SourceSafe, especially when checking in large amount of files. It just stays there and eventually dims out (as non responding application does in Windows Vista). The ultimate solution is to kill the devenv.exe process and start over.

VS2008 Not Responding

But I have discovered that it is not just hanging, it's just the main application window that stops responding. If you hover the application in the task bar on Windows Vista you see the preview window showing the check-in SourceSafe dialog. So you just have to wait it out.

Preview shows the SourceSafe dialog

Still, the Visual Studio team should do this on another thread so the main window don't freeze or at least make it so that the dialog is shown in front of the application.

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#  Name not hidden. by MHN
Screenshot from websnpr Is it iBizkit Portal?
#  Re: Name not hidden by Wictor
Screenshot from websnpr Wow, a real PI :-) Not that difficult to guess, if you have read previous posts here...
#  Re: Name not hidden by MHN
Screenshot from websnpr Oh, I haven't. The name just shined through the blur.
#  Re: Name not hidden by Wictor
Screenshot from websnpr Okie, I don't mind. I just wanted to highlight the "not responding" messages.
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